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May/June Test Drive Meme

All you need is love.

So the Sphere heard that some of you guys are lonely. It doesn’t want you to be lonely so it has decided that even though it’s not really February the people within its confines and connected to them deserve to have a sort of Valentine’s Day anyway. Celebrating love (all sorts of love, definitely not merely the romantic sort) is on display. Think pink and red and white and loads of hearts and rainbows.

all you need is some kind of love.

In the middle of the merchant dome, some of the stalls pushed aside a large pink and white stripped tent is set up. Inside is a series of small tables, each set up with numbers and two seats each. When people go in and register to receive the number, they are given three initial options. Option one is romantic dating with further subcategories based on gender preferences (if any) and orientation. The second option is for friendship. The Sphere wants you to make friends! A third option only open to the adults within the Sphere is for hooking up and no strings attached sex. That is also sectioned by orientation and preferences.

Each option you pick allows people to talk for five minutes before people move onto the next person. At each station is the option for ice breaker cards. Think would you rather or describe your perfect date (date date or a friendship date. Whichever you’re working on.) Should players wish it, there are various unnamed NPCs around for people to chat up, hook up with or whatever. Go a little bit nuts with it.

it's all for a good cause

John put a post up that calls for the option to sign up for (or to be signed up by someone else) for a date that’s auctioned off. She somehow managed to convince Max to host said auction (but don’t ask how. You don’t want to know what she had on him) so he is your MC for the night.

The gala takes place in the same tent as the speed dating, but it’s been made over to look rather gala like. There’s fairy lights and silk on the tables and an open bar with circulating free champagne. And everything else of course. As always with the sphere there’s food in abundance, things that typically one might think of in a romantic context: strawberries and oysters and chocolate and finger foods. It’s that sort of party. None of it has any effect though. Too many people imbibing for that.

There’s a small band playing for people who are interested in dancing, and various NPCs are currently using it. It’s a good party, lively and inviting.

i get by with a little help from my friends.

So, you know how the people within the Sphere tend to force festivals on you? Well, a big part of those is always food and gifts. These particular foods and gifts tend to come in the form of small valentine’s cakes or candy, or flowers for those not inclined for food. The flowers are yellow however, because this isn’t about love. This is about friendship. There’s signs for free hugs, and random people have been hired to go about telling folks that so and so is their friend. Even if they’re not. But they’ll still follow you down the street and spout things like poetry and cheers in the honor of epic friendships. Even if they’re not really all that epic--the friendships or the poetry.

let's go to the movies, let's go see the stars

Some people may remember a few months ago when Alex badgered Max into letting them have an open area movie screening. This time she didn’t need to do it! In the middle of the rec dome, a large screen has been set up, and there’s space for people to have blankets or chairs from home set up in front of the screen. Various vendors have set up carts or stalls here and there, selling the sort of foods that one would expect at the movies (popcorn, homemade candies, soda, juice, wine and beer, nachos and that sort of thing) along with some that one may not expect: (full curry dinners, burgers, basically a bit like a food truck festival. If you can imagine it it’s there.)

Before the movie, there’s cartoons running, some familiar, and some not, and this is an event that people have seemed to have taken to well. Children run around here taken with the idea for the movie, and it’s a fun, summery festive sort of atmosphere with a community vibe, despite the wine and beer for sale.

we're heckling! it's good to be heckling again!

The movie is a buddy movie double feature, and both of them are rated R, but there’s no one checking IDs so go nuts. The movies that are being shown are Hot Fuzz and The Heat because that’s just what buddy comedies happen to be. But movies aren’t to everyone’s taste and there are some people who have taken this to go full on commentary about them. Do you join in or shush them? It’s entirely up to you!

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[ Sofia does laugh then, brief and her laugh is a little sharp. ]

Is that what you call movies?

Well, my world does not have such things, and as no one has given me a name for them before, I felt free to call them as I wished.

Well, movies are what most people call them.

[ Sofia shrugs but it's not really a big deal if he doesn't deserve to use that. ]

Where are you from?

London, capital of Arnes.

Arnes? Not England?

[ Sofia queries glancing at him as they walk. ]

Ah! You're a gray worlder then. No. I'm from Red London.

Okay, none of that makes sense to me.

[He chuckles at that.]

You are brought to a place such as this and cannot fathom that other worlds rest next to your own?

I didn't say that but grey world, red london? Why such an emphasis on color?

There are four worlds that mine and yours are a part of. Yours is the Gray World, for is has no magic in it. Mine is Red London, rich and vibrant and powerful, as Magic is, when uncorrupted and in its purest form, red. Next is White London. White like the remains of a log burnt out to ashes, destroyed by its own actions. And beyond that is Black London... Black London is dead.

[ Sofia lets him speak, watching him mostly from the corner of his eye as she does, always observing with as many of her senses as she possibly can. ]

So, what world is this place in?

I don't know. Magic doesn't seem common to the natives, but the technology is impressive. I'd say, if it is part of the four, it's Gray.

[But he's met people not from Earth so... weird.]

[ Sofia tilts her head and gives that some thought. ]

There's nothing like this in my world, though.

There is nothing like this in my world either. Magica cannot achieve this.

Then maybe there are a lot of worlds that you didn't know about either.

There is a possibility.

Nothing like this exists in either of our worlds. Maybe we call it waterworld.

[ Which is another movie it's probably best he hasn't heard of. ]

Waterworld? I suppose it's as fair as I know nothing else about it.

[ Sofia looks vaguely amused but she shrugs. ]

Does it bother you?

Yes. Many things about this place bother me. However, I'm not able to change them. So I make the best of what I have.

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